RSAN/SDIN workshop
autumn day/najaarsdag

“Knowledge Creation and Neighbourhoods”

keynote by: Prof. Dr. Oliver Ibert, Freie Universität Berlin

location: Deprez building, near Tilburg CS, Lange Nieuwstraat 172-174

start 10:00, finish 17:00

€50 (€40 for RSAN members)

City neighbourhoods differ widely from one another, to the point where severe poverty and social deprivation may literally be just a few steps away from wealth and affluence, and where socio-culturally diverse cosmopolitan high grounds may neighbour inward-looking enclaves of ethnic minorities or lower working class white communities.

In general, cities seem to favour knowledge creation, because of their diversity of knowledge inputs, their diverse markets and outlets for new products and services, and their physical connectivity to global knowledge. However, knowledge creation only happens in a select number of privileged places within cities. This is because the knowledge workers involved in knowledge creation form distinct social and professional communities that occupy distinct physical places within the city. They work in universities, research centres and office buildings, they meet at airports, hotels and bars, they have a preference for high-end cultural and leisure amenities and they live in upscale residential areas. These are the physical places where knowledge creation happens.

This is sufficient reason to problemize the interaction between social space and physical place; the interaction between the professional communities and networks of knowledge workers and the physical places where they meet. The spatial scale on which knowledge creation happens may be smaller than the cities and regions of the “innovative milieu” and the regional innovation models. Clearly, with their diversity of neighbourhoods cities cannot be seen as integrated and coherent innovation systems. On the other hand, knowledge creation hot spots cannot exist without the less favoured neighbourhoods. To an important degree, that is where the “service workers” who “run” these hotspots, as cleaners, restaurant workers and security staff, live. This raises important questions regarding the interaction between social space and physical place for knowledge creation. What makes a place a knowledge creation hot spot? Can cities manipulate this? How are hot spots connected to global knowledge? But is also raises pressing questions on the relationship between knowledge creation hot spots and less favoured neighbourhoods. How do borders emerge between hot spots and the rest of the city? Can these borders be made more permeable? How much economic exchange (people’s jobs) exists between hot spots and less favoured neighbourhoods? What social and cultural functions do hots spots perform for the city in general?

It may be that, for knowledge creation, cities depend on a mosaic of attractive places within and beyond the city in order to attract knowledge workers. But at the same time, this trans-local mosaic must be integrated in a local web of economic and social city life if it is to remain vibrant.

You are warmly invited to submit an abstract to the organizers, Roel Rutten (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Martijn Smit (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

More information at: http://www.rsanederland.nl/en/bijeenkomsten/30-october-rsansdin-workshop-autumn-dag-najaarsdag/

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite researchers, scientists and experts to participate in the 15th Ernestas Galvanauskas’ International Scientific Conference„RETHINKING REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS“, which will be held on 26th – 27th November, 2015 in Siauliai, Lithuania. Please find more information in the attached invitation.

Registration deadline – November 2, 2015. (http://smf.su.lt/registracijos/galvanausko)

We kindly ask you to forward this information to other colleaguesthat may be interested in the conference.

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this mail.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

Best regards,

Conference Organizers 

As part of the Social Science Data Analytics initiative in the College of Social Science at Michigan State University, we are seeking to hire a full-time research associate to work within the Landscape Ecology & Ecosystem Science (LEES) Lab and to be a part of the Social Science Data Analytics initiative. The initial appointment will be for one year, with an option for reappointment on a year-to-year basis for up to three years, based on performance. 

We seek applicants that use data science tools to answer social science-relevant questions. We are particularly interested in candidates that can strengthen the University's research in Bayesian data analysis, machine learning approaches to prediction, text as data, and the analysis and visualization of complex multi-scale data. The successful candidate will be expected to work under the direction of the LEES Lab and actively contribute to the Social Science Data Analytics initiative at MSU. 

The successful candidate will join other research associates and faculty as members of the Social Science Data Analytics initiative. There is no teaching obligation for this position, but the successful candidate is welcome to contribute to the growing curricular and training options on Social Science Data Analytics at MSU.  

Please contact Dr. Jiquan Chen for more questions at:

Landscape Ecology & Ecosystem Science (LEES) Lab
Center for Global Change and Earth Observations (CGCEO), and
Department of Geography
1405 S. Harrison Road, Manly Miles Building, Room 218
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48823
Email:              This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Phone:            517-884-1884
Fax:                 517-353-2932
Web:               http://lees.geo.msu.edu/

Call for Papers

11th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)

April 25-28, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Turkish Regional Science Association (Bölge Bilimi Türk Milli Komitesi - BBTMK) invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 11th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International. The Congress will be hosted by the Turkish Regional Science Association.

The Congress will feature several world-renowned keynote speakers on cutting-edge urban and regional science and policy issues, expert panels, research presentations and posters. It will be attended by 500 delegates from the worldwide community of regional scientists.

The conference will be open to different research topics within the broader contours of the regional science, urban and regional studies, geographical sciences and planning, and development. Anticipated sub-themes of the congress include the following:

We invite formal paper presentations as well as posters (deadline of November 29th, 2015). Organizers of special session are also welcome. The abstract submission portal is now open.

Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at www.2016worldcongress.regionalscience.org.

Feel free to contact the secretariat of the Congress at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for further information.

We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Istanbul in April 2016.

With warmest regards,

Tüzin Baycan

Chair of the Local Organizing Committee

Call for Special Session Proposals

11th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)

April 25-28, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey

Special sessions on cutting-edge and frontier topics in Regional Science and Regional Science Policy are welcomed by the organisers. Please contact (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tüzin Baycan, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for proposals of special sessions.

Discussants are required for each presentation in special sessions.

Special Session Proposal Format

Proposals for special sessions should include:

The special session title

The name(s) of the organizer(s), with affiliation(s) and email(s) (identifying the chair)

The aim and scope of the special session (500 words)

Deadline

Special session proposals should be sent by November 1st, 2015 to the secretariat of the Congress at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Abstracts Submission Process(see also the example of the call for paper)

Authors submit abstracts for special sessions through session Organizers.

The organizers of the special session should ask for:

• title;
• authors(s);
• affiliations and emails (indicate the presenter and corresponding author);
• three keywords;
• abstract (400-500 words).

Abstract submission deadline: November 29th, 2015

Notification of acceptance of abstract: December 20th, 2015

After the abstract submission deadline the organizer(s) should send all the submissions to secretariat of the Congress at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The secretariat will insert the data in the CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM and give full access to the organizer for the management of the abstracts.

Details about the Conference: http://2016worldcongress.regionalscience.org/

Dear all,

The new RSAI Newsletter November 2015 can now be found under

http://www.regionalscience.org/images/PDF/newsletter_RSAI_November2015.pdf

The Founder's Medal was established to recognize lifetime contributions to the field of Regional Science and to the Association. It is still the only honour conveyed by the Association as a whole. Previous recipients include Walter Isard, Martin J. Beckmann, William Alonso, Jean H. P. Paelinck, David E. Boyce, Peter Nijkamp, Antoine Bailly and Arthur Getis.

Individuals are invited to submit nominations/self-nominations for the RSAI Founder’s Medal. The nominations should be sent to the RSAI Selection Committee (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), which consists of Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Antoine Baily, Arthur Getis, Jean-Claude Thill and Emmanouil Tranos. The Committee will select three (3) nominees recommended as potential recipients of the Founder’s Medal based on the below criteria. Then, past recipients of the Founder’s Medal will be invited to recommend the recipient from the list of three nominees compiled by the Committee. The announcement of the recipient will take place during the next World RSAI Congress in Istanbul (25-28^th April, 2016).

A written nomination/self-nomination of a candidate for consideration for the RSAI Founder’s Medal should articulate the merit of the nominee for receiving the Founder’s Medal. It must include a detailed statement of the nature of the lifetime contribution a candidate has made to RSAI. The nomination/self-nomination must explain how and why that contribution of the nominee meets the criteria of the RSAI Founder’s Medal outlined below:

• The recipient should be a senior scholar who has contributed in an important way to the field of Regional Science in a scholarly sense;
• The recipient should have been active in the RSAI for a sustained period, but not necessarily active at the time of the award; also, the award is not given posthumously;
• The recipient should be a person with whom many members can identify; his/her contributions could be a major work in one area or many works in several areas;
• The contribution need not be limited to one type of contribution; it might be theory, method or policy, for example;
• It is recognized that the native country and language of scholars affect the extent to which they are known by the membership, and an effort should be made to take this into account.

More information about the Founder’s Medal can be found on the RSAI web page.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the IV World Planning Schools Congress in Rio de Janeiro, we are pleased to inform you that the information regarding the registration fees is now available (for Europe see Regions 1 and 2 below).

Registration Fees

Paying the fee includes access to all sessions and events of IV WPSC, the Opening Reception Cocktail and four Luncheon tickets for Monday until Thursday as well as daily coffee breaks in the morning and snack breaks in the evening.

Does not include events hosted by special interest groups, mobile workshops and other tours.

For the fees there will be Regional Differentiations and distinctions between Early Bird, Ordinary and On Site Registration.

REGION 1: USA, Canada, European Union (except Greece), Norway, and Switzerland

REGION 2: Rest of Europe and Greece

REGION 3: Asia, Oceania, New Zeeland and Australia

REGION 4: Latin America (except Brazil) and Africa

REGION 5: Local participants (Brazil)

YOU CAN ACCESS MORE DETAILED INFORMATION IN HERE.

Please also note that, the extended deadline for abstract submission is October 19th, 2015.

Thanks in advance for spreading out these informations in your schools and among your colleagues.
Looking forward to seeing you all in Rio de Janeiro.

Dear Colleague,

We hope to see you in Évora, Portugal, September 2016, in the 1st World Congress on Silvo-Pastoral Systems:

http://www.silvopastoral2016.uevora.pt/

Silvo-Pastoral Systems in a changing world: functions, management and people

»» Focusing on silvo-pastoral systems.

»» Creating a fertile interdisciplinarity research context leading to progress in knowledge and new adaptative management solutions.

»» Bridging science to practice.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Teresa Pinto-Correia

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN: http://www.silvopastoral2016.uevora.pt/

Call for papers

“Niss(i)ology and Utopia: back to the roots of Island Studies”

ISISA (International Small Islands Studies Association) Islands of the World XIV Conference

In association with RETI (Excellence Network of Island Territories)

23 - 27 May 2016

Mytilini, Lesvos Island, Greece